BSG In The News

BOSTON, March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- BSG Team Ventures, the retained executive search firm with offices in Boston and Cambridge UK, today announced the expansion of the firm's operations to New York, with the opening of its newest office at 230 Park Avenue.

BSG Team Ventures has tapped Jim Cornehlsen, a 20-year business veteran whose experience includes senior executive roles in the private equity, publishing, technology and Internet applications sectors to serve as director of BSG Team Ventures Media and Information Services division. Cornehlsen has worked in this specialty area with a number of international search consultancies, including Heidrick and Struggles, where he served as a Director and helped to form the media/information services practice. He was also member of the technology practice. As head of New York operations, he will be responsible for growing BSG Team Ventures' base of regional search consultants and spearheading new business development initiatives to bolster the firm's New York-area client base.

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CareerJournal.com spoke with Clark Waterfall, managing director at BSG-Team Ventures about the executive hiring outlook nationwide. BSG-Team Ventures is a Boston executive-search firm focused on the technology and science sectors.

Which industries will do a lot of hiring at the executive level in 2006?

Digital media has really made a strong comeback. All traditional media companies -- paper-based magazines and newspapers, traditional TV and traditional radio -- will need executive talent who can help build business or retain business. You have streaming audio now, you have Podcasts; there is all this technological innovation. There used to be very rigid distribution channels, but those channels are disintegrating. You either play along, or your intellectual property gets pirated. You have to monetize your content online.

Anything to do with online advertising has become a boom space. The next generation of advertising is interactive advertising. It's about serving up ads that address my personal preferences and not yours, which is often referred to as one-to-one marketing.

Another big area is Internet security. Every company will want to hire in this area. We did a chief information officer search for a Boston-based position for a $400 million travel-services related company. Part of the job is going to be Internet security. These sorts of searches are more and more in demand.

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BSG Team Ventures Into The Sport of Kings
December 6, 2005

BSG Team Ventures has issued a challenge to the City to attract newcomers to polo. BSG Team Ventures is calling on all those curious about the 'Sport of Kings' to try their hand at polo on a 'Discover Polo' day with a view to forming a team and competing in the Pro-Am City Polo Championships 2006. Non-riders and riders are all welcome and no experience or equipment is necessary.

Simon Haworth of BSG Team Ventures is Ascot Park Polo Club's newest brand partner and is seeking to bring together a group of amateur players over the Winter Season. No previous riding experience is required with the overall objective to introduce more players to the sport. The Pro-Am City Polo Championships is a unique competition specifically tailored for City players from complete beginner's right through to professionals and provides the opportunity for newcomers to take part in their first competition and gives and exciting target to work toward.

Simon Haworth, BSG Team Ventures, commented,

“When I saw polo for the first time at last year's Pro-Am City Championships I knew that I had to have a go and to find out what it takes to get to a competitive level. Starting from scratch and with only the faintest memory of riding I personally have a long way to go before I can compete … and it would be nice to have a few others with whom to commiserate when I miss the ball AGAIN.”

If you work in the Venture Capital industry, work in the City or even just want to try your hand at polo then BSG Team Ventures and Ascot Park Polo Club want to hear from you. Get in touch before December 30th for the chance to come to a 'Discover Polo' day where you will learn the theory and rules behind polo, learn about the polo swing, learn how to ride a polo pony and even play your first game of polo.

To get involved with the BSG Team Ventures 'Discover Polo' day please contact  or call Simon on 01223 472757 no later than December 30th. To find out more about polo and Ascot Park Polo Club please contact  or call Lucy on 01276 858 545.

About Ascot Park Polo Club Website
www.polo.co.uk

Established in 1976 Ascot Park Polo Club is now the world's largest polo training centre in the world catering for all levels and abilities. Part of the aim of the club is to dispel the myths associated with polo and make the sport accessible to all through the Discover Polo experience and the Corporate Learn to Play Polo Experience.

Ascot Park is a full playing members club in addition to providing a Training Centre for newcomers to the sport. It is founder of and home to the International Women's Polo Association affiliated with 33 countries around the globe. In addition to this Ascot Park established the first ever Women's World Championships, the Corporate 'Learn to Play Polo' Experience, hosts the Pro-Am City Championships and polo in venues such as Regent Street. Contact: Lucy Northmore +44 1276 858545

"Entrants to the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) 'running the gauntlet' competition now stand to benefit from a package of business services worth up to £200,000, in addition to the share of £1 million of investment funding from local venture capitalists CREATE.

The comprehensive package of in-kind business support comes from four sponsors who have signed up to support the competition. 'Running the gauntlet' is working to encourage entrepreneurship and early-stage business success across the East of England.

...International headhunter BSG Team Ventures will advise winning entrants on enhancing value through recruitment of a top team, and will support the most deserving winner with free recruitment services worth £30-50,000." - "New sponsors bring up to £200,000 worth of business benefits for running the gauntlet competition entrants", press release - July 2005

For more information:
• Running The Gauntlet
• East of England Development Agency launches UK's biggest business competition - May 23, 2005

"In our role as executive search consultants for early stage companies, one of the questions that seems to continually vex the CEO is how best to build out their team. This question often narrows to a discussion around whether it would be better to hire a senior level person first in each of the key functional roles in the organization chart, or rather to hire a more junior level person and hire at a higher level once the company has built up some 'traction.' For our purposes, traction can be defined as any or all of a number of indicators, including revenue, funding, or product development milestones." - "HIRE HIGH... or HIRE LOW: Should you hire a veteran or wean & train when building an early stage company?", Mass High Tech - April 2004
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"As part of Boston Search Group's director search practice, we interact with a wide variety of corporate governance thought leaders. And because the world of corporate governance is changing so rapidly - and the implications of those changes are far less well publicized for private companies than for public companies - we've decided to share some of what we hear from the experts with our clients, candidates and friends." - "How should private company boards operate in a Sarbanes-Oxley world? How will today's changing corporate governance environment affect entrepreneurial technology companies?", Corporate Governance Topics for Private Companies - September 2003,
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"You’ve decided to put a key position or group of positions out for search, and you must choose an executive search firm or employment agency. But who? Whether you talk with one company or several, this article outlines a few basic considerations to guide you toward the right search partner." - "Hired gun: Finding a search firm that fits your needs," Mass High Tech - July 2003,
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"What are the first thoughts you — as founder and/or CEO of an early-stage company — have when cash conservation rises to the top of your priority list? No doubt 'stretch payables' comes bubbling up. That might be followed closely by an even more draconian idea, the one no one wants to utter, the one that’s so stigmatized that its euphemism was made into a three-letter acronym in a fruitless effort to further defang it — the 'RIF,' a.k.a. reduction in force. Once the sweat on your brow dries and the lump in your throat ebbs, emotion fades to logic. 'Let’s get creative,' you say. 'What else can we do to ensure we live to fight another day?' We recruited a group of startup survivor-leaders to facilitate a brainstorming session on the topic. We asked them what they’ve tried that they would do again if faced with similar cash constraints." - "Looking for a Lifeline?," Mass High Tech - May 19, 2003,
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"CEO of the future, bootstrapping CEO, self-funded start-up leader. Whatever you choose to call it, today's tough market climate demands that a successful start-up CEO in the tech sector be able to grow the company with little or no outside investment. The joke goes that all lenders have moved one spot to the right on the risk continuum-- VCs have become the banks of today. By the time they're willing to lend you money, you don't need it anymore. So, as the American homeowner has become expert in the do-it-yourself method of home improvement, so has the American entrepreneur. The big question then is what does it take to be successful at this new CEO style over the short to medium term? A unique type of product or service, a unique childhood or educational or professional background, drive or vision, leadership ability? Working as an executive recruiter building the leadership teams for early stage technology companies, we've had the opportunity to get to know a number of this breed of bootstrapping CEO's. So we asked a half-dozen or so what they felt it took to be successful. And it turns out to be all the characteristics listed above, and then some." - "DNA of a bootstrapping CEO," Mass High Tech - January 2003,
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"BSG has been an early pioneer in post-placement executive coaching. We've agressively embraced executive onboarding -- the facilitated integration of an executive's first 100+ days. Having already seen the fruits of these efforts, Kate Lye's article answers the question often posed by clients, 'is the onboarding process just focused on the executive?' She does a terrific job in outlining the fact that there are actually THREE transition slices -- personal transition activities, transition activities for the leadership team, and organizational/company transition activities. When these are orchestrated in concert, they lead to the highest 'stick-rates' for new executives. As she so sagely states, 'This is because the soft stuff is the hard stuff, as weathered leaders know.'" - "Doing the C-Suite shuffle: helping new leaders choreograph their first 100 days," Kate Lye - Smythe Dorward Lambert, 2002
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"We get hired to build early-stage executive teams by our clients every day. So we’ve seen our fair share of 'team-building,' and much of what follows is likely intuitive to many. It is a combination of our experience and the collective wisdom of more than two dozen early-stage venture capitalists in the North East who we asked the question, 'What does a bankable executive team mean to you?'" - "The Anatomy of a Bankable Executive Team," Mass High Tech - September 2002
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"In 1999 and 2000, executive search specialists wore out their shoes and ran up large telephone bills as they tried to keep up with demand from corporate clients for senior managers." - "Executive Search Firms' Phones Begin to Ring", The Globe Online - 03/07/2002,
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"I think it is more about vision than it is about money...Money comes second. Vision and culture come first. " - Clark Waterfall "Panelists: It's Not Just About Money ", Boston.Internet.Com,
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"Brian Sugar has got a tough job. The former vice president of e-commerce at clothing retailer J.Crew is now a top executive at BlueLight.com... " - "Chief Web Officers Take Charge ", Inter@ctive Week
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